Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs vs GeForce GT 520 OEM

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated525
Place by popularitynot in top-10057
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameGF119Tiger Lake Xe
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date20 August 2012 (12 years ago)15 August 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores9680
Core clock speed589 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1350 MHz
Number of transistors292 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)29 Watt28 Watt
Texture fill rate9.424no data
Floating-point processing power0.2692 gflopsno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs16no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth8 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAno data
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12_1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 August 2012 15 August 2020
Chip lithography 40 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 29 Watt 28 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs has an age advantage of 7 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 3.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 520 OEM and Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 520 OEM is a desktop card while Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs is a notebook one.


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